New Game Changer harmonica

@Adam1 , I use forerunners as my standard 12 hole chromatic. Some positions are better played on chroms in different keys but C is a good starting point. I carry chroms in Ab; Bb; C; D; E; & F# because that also gives me solo tuned diatonics in those keys and with the slide held in usually signed as < A; <B; <Db; <Eb; <F; & <G, A solo tuned chrom is only two solo tuned diatonic joined by a button, As @ David W puts it they are heavier. I travel a lot and a 10 hole 2.5 octave chrom is a lot easier that 12 + diatonic (blues) harps to carry. 3rd position of draw 1 or draw 5 is pretty good for blues and the blues/pentatonic scales give you some useful get-me-out-of jail-free notes. If you look for CHROMATIC in the GEAR section on 4th October (think this may do it Chromatic - #8 by Jay1 ) I posted the whole list of blues; minor pentatonic & major pentatonic scales for a solo tuned C chrom. If you can put them into a small index notebook you’ll can use them as a cheat list so if someone is playing in Bb minor just turn to that page and it will be difficult to go wrong :innocent: I’ve been cheating like that for years :shushing_face: Jay1
Two thing I forgot to mention: Octaves are in 4 hole sequence so holes 1-4 are the first octave; 5-8 the second octave and on a 12 hole 9-12 are the 3rd octave and 10 hole chroms have a slightly different tuning on holes 9 & 10 but don’t worry about that. Jay1

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